I used to but not anymore. There is no need when all blizzard does is reuse old mechanics. It is easy to work out fights first go when you did the same thing years ago just with a different boss model.

This where I always say how people take this game WAY too seriously. Do you read up on a boss fight when you're playing a console game like say Halo or something? No. So why should people get all studious about WoW just to please you? This is why I just raid in LFR because everybody in this game expects you to know what to do, what the boss does, and how to rotate your abilities/spells whether it's your first time ever in the dungeon or you're a new player to WoW altogether. I find it ridiculous how people want you to go on youtube and look up a boss fight and "study" it so that the group doesn't wipe or whatever, it's just so stupid. This is why people can't just play the game and have fun with it because of people like this. They like to act like they're at a job and they're the boss. Well I hate to say it but you're not the boss of anybody and you're playing an online computer game that deals with magic, monsters and other fantasy things that a 5 year old would play with. So do us all a favor and lighten up.

I like how you made a poll asking a question and assumed you knew the answer. Why even bother with the poll if you're just going to talk down to everyone? Some peoples kids. Anyway, I don't raid anymore.

I like how you made a poll asking a question and assumed you knew the answer. Why even bother with the poll if you're just going to talk down to everyone? Some peoples kids. Anyway, I don't raid anymore.

Did you look who the OP was? I didn't even have to take it off ignore to know what he said.

Of course seeing the fight first-hand is essential for learning it properly. That's no excuse for not reading a strat.

You don't get it. Simply reading a strategy doesn't work for me at all. It's just information I get and I don't process it good enough to actually know what to do or understand it well enough. It's simply how I learn things. You may learn it differently and that's cool but I won't bash you for it.

This is pretty simple in my opinion, if you're an LFR/Flex/Normal raider it doesn't really matter, HOWEVER, if you're doing any kind of heroics of course you should, anything you can do to increase the likely-hood you'll kill a boss, you should do, nobody will keep around the lazy person who doesn't watch videos in a heroic guild, a huge part of non-WF heroic raiding is watching videos, they help you learn strats, will you need to adjust the strat based on your group? probably, but those adjustments will be easier if you watch the videos, since you'll already know what you're tackling.

Also, it's not about taking the game "super srs" it's about not wasting 9-24 other peoples time on the first attempts, while you learn a fight you've never seen vs atleast knowing what it's going to look like from a video.

It depends on the group that I'm with... If I was with my hardcore raiding guild and someone showed unprepared, they'd get kicked from the raid or if it was the second or third time they've done that, they get kicked from the guild. Now if it's a pug, I won't give 2 shits if someone didn't read up because they're likely not taking the game as seriously as I am... But to be in a raiding guild and purposefully show up w/ no knowledge of the fight, you're pretty much a douchebag. While everyone else is aware of what's to come, the noob who didn't read up on the fight will think "oh i'll just wing it... move out of anything that looks bad" I remember back in Wotlk when ICC first came out, there was this warlock who did amazing dps, but his cocky attitude got the best of him. He showed up late to a raid but still got in because he was good dps. The fight starts and everyone is doing what they need to, until he gets picked from RNG to meet up in the middle w/ the 2 other chained people... instead of grouping up, he starts running around crazily, taking massive dmg btw, until he dies. He then screams why healers aren't doing their job n such... Before he could get any more words out, the next thing that pops up is "blah blah has been kicked from the raid" "Blah blah has been kicked from the guild" A raid is like a test, if you don't study, you've already studied for failure.